As in Country A allows only 1 Country B allows 2 Country C allows 3 ->because of country A, it’s only possible to hold the citizenships of B & C at the same time.

(Note: This applies to intelligence, as well as consciousness, sentience, those are all just different forms of evolved brainpower)

We think of ourselves as the most intelligent species on Earth but we're certainly not far ahead of other species. Our technology and everything that makes us human is only a couple million years removed from the nearest ape who is still around. Maybe we're not even #1 - dolphins and elephants have higher brain size, at least, than we do. We're not special at all, and maybe there are even more intelligent/conscious alien species, or we might evolve into one, with massively different goals and motivations. I don't just mean aliens with dyson spheres and planet killers, but biologically, what is their state of mind? What drives them? Can we even speculate on this or is this just way beyond, like how an ant would be unable to comprehend us going to work everyday to earn money to pay rent ... ?

Been an atheist my whole life. Tried getting into Christianity (I found it way too hateful) tried getting into Buddhism (but it's more of a life style than anything else) did some reading of the Muslim faith (but I found it very restrictive)

I really don't know what to do. Ive always felt that a certain amount of spirituality is healthy but could never really pin down what is was about everything I tried that made it feel reductive. Like all these beliefs I've looked into, most of them are all like "you fucked up by being born so you're gonna have to spend the rest of your life making up for it" or something very arbitrary like "try to find peace and enlightenment, Detach yourself."

This can't be all there is. So I'm reaching out to you all. Anyone that has found some sort of positive direction outside of the logical ruthless world we live in. What does that look like for you? Are there books? Are there some ancient religions nobody practices anymore that actually have some good points? Is it a mix of different teachings? Does it have to all be so vague so everyone can find some meaning in it? Help a guy out please.

I think a huge part of the reason the world is coming apart at the seams is how America is weakening as a global force. I think the reason behind that is increasing globalization, but also a lack of vision in our politics. We still to this day can't find anyone to replace Trump or Biden and furthermore don't even have a plan to try to do that at any time in the foreseeable future. I think the reason behind that is commonly understood, no one in their right mind would want to be President of the United States.

All the people who are smart enough and talented enough with the right vision also use that vision to realize it would ruin their life. Now maybe we get an amazing person out of nowhere who wants to be Jesus for us and sacrifice themselves for the greater good like a new Obama, but I'm not so sure that's going to happen. I think that's what everyone is waiting for, but as time goes on the job of being President gets more and more unattractive and untenable for someone who doesn't have significant ulterior motives. And then consider what I said about the US Presidency basically applies to the high leadership of any nation and over time, how could our species not be completely doomed by that?

TLDR The more time goes on the more complicated the world gets, the more difficult the job of being a leader becomes to the point we only have the most insane people to choose from to guide us and they will most likely guide us in the wrong direction.

How can we get past this? Or is this the key flaw in our code?

I’m the type of person that struggles with motivation. If I don’t like the people I’m working with or the cause that I’m striving for appealing I mentally check out. I’ve been part of things that motivate me to do good for the sake of the organization or community I’m working for. But for the most part I haven’t felt that way. And now I’m struggling with money, relationships and just being alive. Drinking has been the only way I’ve been able to cope and I don’t want to have to cope so hard anymore. Drinking should be a fun thing on occasion. I just need help. In a world that doesn’t truly except me (I’m a young pansexual nonbinary black male presenting 23 year old) how do I make it?

i’m a senior in highschool and i’m going to college in a few months. throughout highschool, i had very negative experiences with people i thought were my friends, and it has ruined my outlook on friendships and people in general. i try not to, but i can’t help having the feeling that anyone i meet will just end up hurting my feelings. i currently don’t have any friends (not counting my amazing boyfriend who has helped my immensely). but id love to meet interesting people at college. i’m not really into partying or anything like that, so i am concerned about how i will meet different people. also, my major has a very small program and it will be roughly the same 30 people all four years, even though the school had 9,000 people in it. i’m just fearful i will end up unlucky again and never make any genuine friends i actually click with. any advice or thoughts is appreciated.

How you interpret the world reflects the meaning you give it; the world mirrors the relationship you have with yourself. Our mind does not represent objective reality, it creates the subjective reality we experience inside our head.

What do you call it more often?

So, I like visiting profiles of Instagram (and other social media) of girls I know. I like scrolling and seeing if there are some interesting pictures.

Also, if a girl is beautiful, then I check her story immediately when she posts it (because cookies know that I view that account more often, so it shows her story among first ones).

But I see some people on the Internet complaining that someone stalks their account, by saying that they view their instagram stories (stories have view list), or that they like (upvote) a bunch of old posts, as well as any posts.

But I wonder, does it really count as stalking? I thought girls like when they are considered attractive, so is it really stalking to just view and upvote their posts? Or, am I suppose to almost never look at their profile? Because I thought stalking means spying and making someone scared, doesn't it? Or, am I considered a stalker just by doing this?

I had just watched 'Absolutely Anything' (2015) featuring Simon Pegg, and the topic of never, when in a position of having literal superpowers, manipulate a person's emotion, particularly from a place of indifference to compassion. This may not be the point of the movie but it is a common theme for a lot of fiction which I think is very insightful.

Other examples include, I think it was Hogwarts Legacy how the antagonist once wished to cure her father's hollowing absence of joy with something else (I think). I wish I could name more but that is the general idea. How you can do absolutely anything if you have powers like granting yourself a better body, building a skyscraper out of thin air, get your dream job, but when you try to win a person, that is when you need to pull the breaks.

I was hoping that the community could spell out a more refined take on this on how our emotions, are the most potent force of all existence in that it is hard to justify nor adjust.

I've never seen falling snow.

I do think that most people are interesting in one right or another and it takes a bit of digging to expose those interests. That said, the rise of social media etc. has led to the dulling of our minds. I find that every once in a while I'll come across someone who's just so different with weird, unique interests that I'm instantly intrigued. I think it often ends up being people whose minds work a bit differently (maybe they're autistic or obsessive or hypomanic/bipolar) and I often only read about them through the internet. How do I increase the chances of meeting such people in person? I'd love to join more weird/unusual activity groups but it's difficult to actually find many where enough people show up.

What are your means for finding interesting people?

Now that I'm in my mid20s, I see a lot of people whom I thought were weak insecure scared shy now the total opposite. They are independent smart talkative and living in freedom rather then some sort of boundaries.

It feels like I'm trying to become that type of version but it's so difficult I guess. For years brain feels programmed to overthinking anxious behavior. Even in happy times. I get bad thoughts and little worries turn in overthinking mode.

Well I’m an adult now. It arrived so fast.

I can’t help but feel so bitter and upset that I never had my first kiss, date, sex, and relationship as a teen. It makes me so upset that I just wanna forget about sex and dating and just never have it.

I am more social and I started meeting women and socializing more but I feel so fucking envious of people who had sex as teens

EDIT: it’s not about whether it’s good or bad, I just wish I didn’t miss out on such important milestones.

EDIT2: It’s not about it being good or bad, I just wish I experienced young love and sex.

EDIT 3: I’m tired of people saying I’m “young”. I know I’m not old but there are people younger than already dating and fucking. There are boys who are 15 and 16 having sex and dating.

I was able to get a position with my bachelor's degree in Communication and Media which I currently have.

However I am looking for other jobs but I am having a hard time finding anything with my degree.

I even went back to school to get a small certificate in social media marketing to try to build my resume more.

However I am still struggling to find other positions with my degree and I don't know what to do.

Can suffering and adversity really lead to personal growth and transformation, or is it more of a matter of getting cause and effect mixed up (ie: an already strong person can overcome their adversity)?

By thought orphans I mean abandoned or unknown thoughts and ideas that in your opinion deserve to be accepted and cultivated.

For example, I feel alone in using l-theanine, in dissing Cabernet Sauvignon, in considering almost any hierarchy or law as inherently toxic, in encouraging greater sexual freedom of all women, in advocating stupidity as a winning investment strategy, in avoiding aliums (onion, garlic, leek) not on the grounds of taste or health but for purely ideological reasons, etc.

These are just examples but everyone probably has plenty of their own.

I’m having trouble convincing my loved ones that these are worthy ideas. It seems to me that they dismiss these ideas without really thinking about them. Because of this, I feel lonely but worst of all, I feel like humanity is not firing on all cylinders.

How do you make people pick up new, strange ideas that you believe may work? Or how do you give up on them?

Has anybody else ever been curious about the mental & emotional toll a witness of a crime experiences? Or what happened to the poor soul that found the remains of someone else? We all talk about the victim(s) and their loved ones, and the sadness or anger they feel. No one really talks to or about the witness, or witnesses, so I'm asking for stories. Who among us has stumbled across a dead body somewhere? Or witnessed a crime that may or may not have been violent? What repercussions or trauma (if any) have you experienced as a result of that event?

Recently, I got to experience the joy of seeing my horrid teenaged brother dressed and dolled up like a girl in public. He cut my hair off with a pair of scissors and left my head looking like a dishevelled mop that got caught in a lawn mower. My parents let me decide on his punishment with their approval and I chose one I knew he would hate more than hell itelf and knock his ego down so many pegs it fell off the clothesline.

Part of the reason I enjoyed that punishment so much is he is only really punished by his own bigotry because I can't imagine why a man/boy who views women and effeminate men as equal would be so distraught by resembling one in public.

When I boasted about it to my male friends I expected them to agree but they expressed how humiliating they themselves would find the idea of cross-dressing in public. This made me second guess my attitude about it and made me realize it doesn't seem fair to judge and invalidate someone else's emotions simply because I cannot understand them.

But I still can't help but think the connotations that form this objection are rooted in most men's misogyny/homophobia if they simply object to wearing women's clothes BECAUSE they are stereotypically "feminine" or "gay". Having this said there are men and boy sin my life I love and would not wish to see this suffering on them.

Is the dominant ideology that men appearing or behaving feminine being degrading and humiliating to them patriarchal? Can a man who finds an experience like this so unbearably embarrassing(like my Tate-worshipping sexist brother did) not view effeminacy as inferior? Is this always rooted in bigotry? I can't help but think so, but at the same time if most of the good men out there feel this way then maybe we shouldn't hold it against them. It's not like girls are ever in tears because they have to wear board shorts and denim jackets, so why is that then?

as said above. I looked up the definitions of a monster, and what struck me was ca "a being that challenges the human moral and the status quo". how can a being that does such a thing be considered a monster? what would make it inherently monstrous, fearful to see or be around, and make people keen on trying to fight/ get rid of/ discard it.

I went to an arts high school with kids who mostly came from very bad areas that went to the school.

A lot of the kids that went to the school were very disrespectful, rude and hostile. There were so many situations where I felt like people disrespected me and I didn't stand up for myself the way I should have.

Now I deeply regret it years later and have so much anger about it and towards the school because they weren't able to protect me the way they should have when I was a kid.

1. There was a huge situation that happened in the classroom senior year where I was being ganged up on and the teacher wasn't controlling the class and it was a huge situation.
2. There were situations where people disrespected me and said some extremely rude hostile things and I didn't stand up for myself the way I should have.
3. There were situations where people even put their hands on me physically and I didn't stand up for myself the way I should have.
4. There was always fights breaking out
5. Always chaos in the classroom
6. The kids there were extremely disrespectful, rude, hostile and confrontation.

I don't know what to do as I am still upset by these things years later as I can remember countless situations where I feel I didn't defend myself and protect myself like I should have.

So I was reading a little about how “some infinities are larger than others” and I saw an example saying that an infinite series of positive numbers would be smaller than an infinite series of the positive and negative numbers together, I guess in terms of how many individual numbers there would be if you were able to count them. That kind of bothered me though for a few reasons I guess. My understanding of infinity or an infinite series of anything is that it doesn’t end, so a question I have is how is infinity plus one, or any amount, greater than plain infinity? The problem I’m having is that I don’t know if you could ever really say one is bigger than the other because if two series of anything are infinite, then by definition they both never end. It might be similar to saying some eternities are longer than others, it would contradict the definition of eternity if you understand it as I do to mean forever. The point being if you define infinity or eternity as being without end or going on forever I don’t know if it’s accurate to say that by having one infinity attached to the end of another, or by putting two eternities together somehow, that you would have a larger infinity, or a longer eternity. Feel free to let me know what you think.